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Good morning Pasadena! We're back in your inbox this morning to keep you in the loop with what's happening in and around town. Grab a cup of coffee and read on. ☕️️

In today's newsletter:

  • How a Pasadena photographer shot LA’s most destructive wildfire up close
  • Remember when Pasadena’s Rose Bowl hosted this record-shattering performance?
  • How new $100,000 visa fees could reshape Pasadena Unified classrooms

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Today's riddle: The doctor told me to drink carrot juice after a hot bath. - Did it help? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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Weather forecast:

  • Wednesday: Mostly sunny and pleasant, with a high of 77 and low of 54 degrees.
  • Thursday: Partly sunny and pleasant, temps: high: 79, low: 55.
  • Friday: Mostly sunny and pleasant, with a high of 76 and low of 51 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Some of the best Reuters photos of 2025, and the stories behind them (srnnews.com) — Pasadena appears in a striking photo feature on 2025’s biggest news images, highlighting devastating LA wildfires that turned parts of Pasadena and the Palisades to ash. Local photographer Mario Anzuoni describes evacuating his own Pasadena neighborhood, then documenting nearby homes and businesses burning, including a familiar McDonald’s, as wind-driven flames roared through the city.
   

• 10 Of The Greatest Individual Bowl Game Performances In College Football History (brobible.com) — One of college football’s greatest individual bowl performances happened right in Pasadena, where Ohio State’s Jaxon Smith-Njigba torched Utah in the 2022 Rose Bowl with a record-setting 347 receiving yards. The story ranks his outing alongside other legendary postseason games, from Joe Burrow’s Peach Bowl explosion to defensive and special-teams records across decades.
   

• CA school needing foreign workers as teachers can't afford Trump's new visa fee (record-bee.com) — Pasadena Unified is shifting the full cost of new H‑1B visas onto foreign teachers as it grapples with a $27 million budget deficit, potentially shrinking its pipeline of international educators. The move comes amid a new federal $100,000 visa sponsorship fee and a statewide teacher shortage, raising concerns about how local language and special education programs will cope.
   

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  • Had a great photoshoot with Miracle, actress and model, as part of the Bold Beauty Project, which aims to celebrate women with disabilities and tell their stories through photography.
    Had great fun with her, her sister and their dad as we created her story! (Nextdoor Southwest Downtown)
  • Butternut is an adorable puppy just 9 mos old, now scheduled to be euthanized if not rescued or adopted by 4:00 p.
    m. tomorrow Tuesday 12/16. The volunteers love this boy and have patiently worked with him out in the play yard to ease his kennel stress. This… (Nextdoor Peppergate)
  • California Institute of Technology posted a job opening for Building and Maintenance Custodian in Pasadena. Apply here.
  • Pacific Oaks College posted a job opening for Adjunct Professor - Human Development (HD) in Pasadena. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Pasadena here.

🗞 Nearby News

Altadena

  • AT&T Actress Milana Vayntrub Found An Unusual Way To Turn Risqué Photos Into Good Deeds (tvline.com)
  • Off-duty California Highway Patrol officer stationed in Altadena area killed in motorcycle crash (cbsnews.com)
  • Los Angeles fires push insurers' disaster losses to $107 billion for 2025 (latimes.com)

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